Storyline:Little Conor (Lewis MacDougall) lives with his sick mother Elizabeth (Felicity Jones) and does not feel well at school - some kids tease Conor, others treat him like a raw egg because of his mom's illness. And even at home everything just seems to get worse, especially when Conor has to be with his strict grandmother (Sigourney Weaver). As if all this were not disturbing enough, Conor also has nightmares in which he reminds of the imminent death of his mother and the old yew comes alive in front of the window, suddenly in a gnarled monster (voice in the original: Liam Neeson) transformed. The eerie creature destroys the environment - and tells Conor what the difference between reality and fairy tale is ...